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[Called the Apostle of Celtic Gaul; he is commemorated on this day
in the Roman Martyrology. In the Paris Martyrology on the 28th
Jan., others on the 31st; that of Cologne on 26th Jan. In the Roman
Martyrology he is said to have been sent by S. Peter into Gaul; but
as Bollandus has shown, this is an error. His life was written by
one Brother Lethald in, or about, A.D. 990.]
Saint Julian was the first to carry the light of the Gospel into that
portion of France of which Le Mans is the capital. There he laboured
with great success, destroyed the idol which the people worshipped, and
persuaded great numbers to be baptized. His life, written several
hundreds of years after his death, is of small authority, and contains
little of interest. His relics were given to Paderborn in Westphalia,
in 1143.